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Just two and a half weeks after he was elected and before he even set foot in the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama was presented with a 120- page report that was supposed to help him to peer into the future.

The top analysts at the U.S. National Intelligence Council had spent a year surveying other experts and studying global trends in a bid to give the president-elect an over-the-horizon view of the year 2025.

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(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. faces longer power outages resulting from storms this year after utilities cut spending on maintenance by as much as 50 percent, according to Quanta Services Inc., the world s largest builder of transmission lines.

Because they haven t been doing maintenance for a few years, we will see longer outages and we will see more frequent outages as storm season approaches, Chief Executive Officer John R. Colson said yesterday in an interview in Bloomberg s Houston office. It s a frequent, very frequent occurrence that cities are affected by storms that shouldn t really affect their distribution systems, and they are devastated and they are out of electricity for days and days.

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Warming Expected to Cut Atlantic Hurricane Tally but Boost Threat

A new modeling study published in this week s issue of Science projects a rise of about 30 percent in potential hurricane damage in the western Atlantic toward the end of the century as emissions of greenhouse gases rise. Although the overall number of storms in the region are expected to drop, the number of strong ones those reaching Category 4 or 5 in the hurricane index are expected to double from the number produced now, the study says. The projections are based on a midrange scenario for a rise in the heat-trapping emissions linked to global warming.

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Winter Storm Warnings in Effect From New Mexico to North Carolina; Ice Knocks Out Power to Tens of Thousands

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"Epic" Storm Blamed for Deaths of Father-Son Samaritans; Heavy Snow Could Break 28-Inch Record

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Dozens of Homes Damaged, More Than 500 Evacuated From L.A. Foothills After Downpour, With More Rain Expected

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Foot of Snow Expected for Washington; Philadelphia Braces for 18 Inches

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Storm Sweeps across Midwest, Closing Schools and Delaying Flights; Buried Mid-Atlantic Prepares for Sequel

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Second Major Snow Storm Hits Region, Paralyzing Airports, Closing Government Offices

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Second Big Storm in a Week Pounds Mid-Atlantic; Chicago Woman Killed by Plow

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